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Description The Chinese Chu-class gunboat Chu Kuan. It was a Japanese-built river gunboat of 740 tons displacement launched in 1907. The gunboats were powered by coal-fired boilers providing a top speed of 13 knots and had a crew of 135. They were ewuipped with the follwing armament: two 12.0 cm guns; two 7.6 cm guns; three 5.7 cm guns; one 40 mm anti-aircraft gun and two machine-guns. Chu Kuan was discarded in the 1960s.
Date 1940s
date QS:P,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine January 1949, p. 20.
Author U.S. Navy
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